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Committee approves amendment to allow districts to donate surplus books; SF 392 laid over
Summary
Lawmakers advanced an amendment to Senate File 392 to permit school districts to donate surplus or weeded books to charities and to make surplus books available to students’ families; committee members said the change would help move unwanted inventory into students’ hands and support literacy programs.
Senator Abler introduced Senate File 392 on Monday, a bill intended to expand options for disposing of surplus instructional and library materials. Holly Gebner, library media teaching and learning specialist for Anoka‑Hennepin Schools, described the district’s current process: library staff consult teachers to reuse materials in the building, surplus items otherwise go to a central warehouse and then to a contracted vendor or public surplus auction under Minnesota Statute 471.345.
An amendment (A1) was offered to permit school districts to donate obsolete…
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